I totally agree that Israel should be fully secular and equal for
all, and kudos to Patricia Marks Greenfield
for researching and speaking out on this topic.

However, while Greenfield is very right about how wrong it is for
Israel to discriminate against and oppress non-Jews, she is wrong
to ask everyone to abandon efforts for a two state solution to end
the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A fully secular two state solution is Israel
and Palestine living side by side in peace and security, with
full respect for international law and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, including but not limited to the
Palestinian refugees [inalienable] right of return to original homes and
lands. One state is Israel's Jewish-only
settlement projects and religious extremists finding
private funds and continued momentum, while
disenfranchised Palestinians lose UNWRA.

One state is a trap, and there will be no escape: One state is
Israel, not Palestine, surviving the Israel-Palestine conflict.

To honor a tragic
history, we must work for peace : "The
only way to honor our tragic histories is to
create a future for our children free of
man-made tragedy. This means making peace fully,
completely and without reservation, between
Israel and Palestine." Ziad
Asali

Where
is the Palestinian Gandhi?Zogby:
What we found was that
there has been a continued erosion in the favorable ratings
Americans have of both Arabs and Muslims, posing a threat to
the civil rights and political inclusion of both Arab
Americans and American Muslims.

Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a
military solution to the conflict will not achieve peace or
provide security for the parties, the council:

1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that
a just peace is its strategic option as well.

2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:

I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied
since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4,
1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese
territories in the south of Lebanon.

II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee
problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General
Assembly Resolution 194.

III- The acceptance of the establishment of a sovereign
independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories
occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
with East Jerusalem as its capital.

3. Consequently, the Arab countries affirm the following:

I- Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and enter into a
peace agreement with Israel, and provide security for all the
states of the region.

II- Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of
this comprehensive peace.